Why would "Gran" ever be a banned word?

[Grandy]

 So I started playing this online FPS called Combat Arms, which is free, which means there are a lot of brasillians in it.

 At any rate, the game gets updated rather frequently, and in one of these updates they added more banned words to the already silly banned words list. The funny part I should explain is that the filter does not differenciates beetwen full words and bits of words, so we can't say "Sniper", because "Nip" is banned, and we can't write Night because of "Nig".

 Other silly bans include "WTF" "Hell" "Heck" "Dam (because people were bypassing "Damn") and "Porra", which is a brasillian word for semen, but can be used as "F**k". All words, doesn't matter how long, are censred as "**", not more asterisks, not less asterisks.

 Now, the game sistem uses the same filter for both the messages and the names, and after that update, my name is officially "**dy12" (there was already a Grandy on it, so I put Grandy1 because I'm the real one, but there was already a Grandy1, so I decided to go as Grandy1 number 2, A.K.A. Grandy12, but that's beside the point,)

 So I just want to know. Why would Gran be banned? Is it a curse I'm not aware of?

[RuneBlade]

Makes me recall some shitty korean third person action game called Rakion I used to play some year ago, they censored almost everything the same whay. But instead of asterisks they used LOVE so "**** you" would become "LOVE you". Its so much sillier than asterisks. Why they would ban Gran I have no idea.

[Grandy]

Lovedy12? Hmm. :/

[Dragonium]

Age discrimination.

[drenrin2120]

So, in Brazil, if someone jammed their finger and shouted, "What the semen!!??", this is perfectly acceptable?

[Drace]

As a European, I hate cencorship completely. In Holland, we don't use it. No bleeps on tv and no asterixes or any bullshit in the subtitles. If we wanna say ****, it's our problem. And to be honest, it works out better that way. Children already know these words so why ban them?

[drenrin2120]

Censorship just gives the things being censored more power. Would ****, ****, and **** be so exciting to say if they weren't socially terrorizing? Course not, but on the other hand... Americans love to sue anyone for just about any reason they can come up with...

[Red Giant]

So, in Brazil, if someone jammed their finger and shouted, "What the semen!!??", this is perfectly acceptable?

Using curse words as a general expression of anger or ill will despite their true meanings isn't uncommon. It's not like "What the sex?" is less ridiculous.

The only reason I can possibly think for Gran to be banned is, as mentioned, age discrimination, but even that is pretty outrageous. Send them an angry e-mail. I mean, dam? You can't talk about a water-blocking construction?

If this were a kid's game or something I would permit it some modicum of leniency, but a first person shooter? I don't think the primary audience of a game that rewards headshots is going to be morally offended by the word "Nip".

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Send them an angry e-mail.

Yes. Do it until you get a response. Send multiple. Recruit other people to do so, as well.

[Desimodontidae]

I've seen some pretty dumb censorships on TV... like "hole" when used after "ass". So you get ass[beep]. Wouldn't it make more sense to bleep the curse word? Also "piss" was blocked for some time... and other dumb ones. I mean I am against censorship but on TV and stuff if you get to the point of vulgarity that's just wrong. I don't want to hear shit like that, and I'm sure most people don't want to (or their kids to) either.

It's just not right to say things like **** and **** and... meecrob.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

and I'm sure most people don't want to (or their kids to) either.

This is something that bothers me. People don't seem to realize, that after a certain point, kids aren't innocent anymore. I'm sorry, but your little angels aren't going to be little angels past, what, first grade?

And seriously. It's a first person shooter. You're running around SHOOTING PEOPLE. WITH GUNS. Who is going to play that type of game, and still be offended by vulgarity? Buck up.

As if you don't hear it all around you in real life, anyway. >.>

[Desimodontidae]

Maybe it's different today, I remember bad words were bad till I was like 11. It was just cool to cuss around your friends. Nowadays though I can't stand people who all that comes out of their mouth every 5 seconds is a curse word. Shooting people is cool, I like to see gore and blood and stuff but are words really necessary? Kind of countering my own point here, but words are human creation, we place meaning on these words and their level of vulgarity. Death however is something that is human nature, glorious and beautiful. I'd rather have children embracing this reality instead of calling each other shit smeared cream filled cunt cakes.

[Grandy]

Yes. Do it until you get a response. Send multiple. Recruit other people to do so, as well.

Oh, the whole CA community already does. I think people over there gave us a fake e-mail adress so they don't have to read them anymore.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Maybe it's different today, I remember bad words were bad till I was like 11. It was just cool to cuss around your friends. Nowadays though I can't stand people who all that comes out of their mouth every 5 seconds is a curse word. Shooting people is cool, I like to see gore and blood and stuff but are words really necessary? Kind of countering my own point here, but words are human creation, we place meaning on these words and their level of vulgarity. Death however is something that is human nature, glorious and beautiful. I'd rather have children embracing this reality instead of calling each other shit smeared cream filled cunt cakes.

Well, of course you're always going to have the dimwit who has nothing better to do than show off their microscopic vocabulary by spewing random vulgarities, but that's where reality sets in again. People are idiots, get over it. Don't try to enrage them further, by blocking out what little communication ability they have.

[ThexXtremeXx]

Maybe it's different today, I remember bad words were bad till I was like 11.

Yep. That's life for ya.